Description
This is one of the new species to come out of the treatment of Professor Nishikawa in Japan. It is one of the parents of the so-called “amurensis” of horticulture.
Native to Japan, Korea and Manchuria. (The Chinese and Korean, mainland, plants have been called pseudoamurensis, but this name is a synonym of the same species, described after Nishikawa had already named the plant as multiflora). Like true Adonis amurensis, this is a diploid species 2n=16. The plant is 20-25 cm tall at flowering with up to four flowers per stem (hence the multiflora of the name). These are bright gold and of a very good size.
Unlike most of the other Adonis species, the leaves are hairless. The sepals are lovely bright yellow, and are oval to spoon shaped, 10-20 mm long and 3-5 mm wide. A floriferous and lovely new species, hardly ever offered.
